Want to build a shed? You’ve come to the right place. Are you like me? A homeowner who has a nice little yard, but no place to put any of my tools. Between the wife, the kids, and all their junk, the garage is overrun. I need a place to put our gardening supplies, I need a place to put my lawnmower, and I just can’t afford to shell out between 4 and 5 grand for a garden shed from Home Depot.
So, I decided to check out alternatives. 1 alternative is to park my car out in the driveway, baking in the Atlanta sun while using my garage space normally reserved for my car to hold all this stuff. Or, to go out and build my own garden shed.
A few years ago I decided I wanted to install hardwood floors myself, and that wasn’t a problem, so I figure this shouldn’t be all that hard either!
My real issue is, I need to know how to do it. It’s not like I can call up home depot and pick their brains, they are going to want to charge me an arm and a leg for some pre-fab. So I needed to get a set of blueprints, or plans, for a garden shed. I found few sites that offer that, there was 1 that offered 41 shed plans for $29. Which actually is a great deal (and yes, I purchased them). Except that, when I open up the site there really is only about 20 garden shed plans there, and then some variants of the same garden shed, so it’s a little misleading, but, nonetheless a great price and if you’re looking for simple, easy to follow plans on just garden shed building, this probably is what you wanna go with.
With that said though, I did happen to stumble upon this woodworking site that is pretty cool. It has something like 500 garden shed plans (way too many to count by hand like I did with the other site) and thousands, and thousands, and THOUSANDS of other woodworking projects to do. There are actually quite a few cool ones I’m going to tackle next spring since it’s a little too cold outside for me to do right now, including 1 for an armoire (seen on page 1,090 when you buy it), a bed (page 1,125) and an AMAZING desk on page 1,260 which will be the very next thing I build once it gets a little warmer outside. Anyway, here are a few pictures of the garden shed:
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I think it came out really well. I’d highly suggest you check out that site though if you are interested in building one yourself, or if you are interested at all in woodworking. I will say this though, the garden shed did not require many advanced tools. A Table Saw, a Mitre Saw, Nail Gun, Screwdriver, some clamps will be enough to get this done, but some of the more interesting projects will require tools the average joe doesn’t have. Of course you could buy them at your local pawn shop for real cheap, or check out woodworking clubs or schools and most of them will let you use their machines if you ask and go in when they aren’t being used by students. Here’s the link:
The number 16,000 can be quite intimidating, but I have to say, the package itself is organized very well. It’s very easy to find what you are looking for, and you don’t have to use the whole kitten caboodle right off the bat, you can just use the garden shed plans by themselves and not deal with the rest of the stuff if you don’t want to. Regardless, I gotta say buying the plans was totally worth it. In the end I calculated my savings at just under $1214 by using this. So I would suggest you give it a shot as well. Even if all you do is make the serving tray seen on page 1,067 you’d be making a wise investment.
